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1: Objects

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    As we learned in the previous chapter, an object is a collection of data that provides a set of methods. For example, a String is a collection of characters that provides methods like charAt and substring.

    Java is an “object-oriented” language, which means that it uses objects to represent data and provide methods related to them. This way of organizing programs is a powerful design concept, and we will introduce it a little at a time throughout the remainder of the book.

    In this chapter, we introduce two new types of objects: Point and Rectangle. We show how to write methods that take objects as parameters and produce objects as return values. We also take a look at the source code for the Java library.


    This page titled 1: Objects is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Allen B. Downey (Green Tea Press) .

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